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Claire
26th of March 2004 (Fri), 16:26
And I'm trying to figure it out. Damn, this will take a while... I only had a P&S before. Not to mention, I'm new at photography all-together.

Any ideas for links/books on basic theory? I want to learn how to use the manual settings. That's why I got it (among other things).

/Claire :)
MediaMagic
26th of March 2004 (Fri), 16:35
And I'm trying to figure it out. Damn, this will take a while... I only had a P&S before. Not to mention, I'm new at photography all-together.

Any ideas for links/books on basic theory? I want to learn how to use the manual settings. That's why I got it (among other things).

/Claire :)

Congradulations! Welcome to the wonderful world of dSLR finance depleting photography! heh. You can watch your account drain after each new technique you master requires that "one more" piece of equipment! :mrgreen:

Take a look at this thread
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28296

Those seem to be a good starter for the dRebel.
cloudless
26th of March 2004 (Fri), 19:03
Read the camera manual that comes with your 300D first, it is short and precise. Keep practicing too!
manncer
26th of March 2004 (Fri), 21:33
:D 8) :roll:

NO! Don't read the manual! It might give you useful material.

manncer
ron chappel
26th of March 2004 (Fri), 23:43
If you haven't learnt allready about apertures,shutter speeds etc you should do that.
Aperture,shutter,iso(or film speed) are all measured in doubles or halves so are dead easy to interchange!! Why doubles and halves?Because the variations in light are waaaay too much to talk in percentages etc.
Oh-and all these interchangable amounts are called 'stops' (it's a historical word)
You'll have to memorize the aperture numbers.It looks like they don't go up and down in doubles and halves but thay do.They are shorthand numbers that signify the ratio of focal length to aperture diameter.It is simple to understand but easiest just to remeber them.

The other very interesting thing to know about photography is how much brightness range can be captured by the camera.
A typical daylight scene contains about 10 stops of bright to dark-but your 300D can only capture about 5 stops of that (usually the middle but with the manual settings you can capture any 5 stops you want!)